Wonderful article! I love the title—it’s compelling and would make an excellent book. I serve as a Strategic Advisor and Marketing Specialist with Virtues Campus, and this resonates deeply with our mission.
Virtues Campus
Empowering Communities to Launch Micro-Colleges
We help local churches and community leaders start fully accredited micro-colleges—right where they are.
What if the Church reclaimed education?
What if every local congregation became a launchpad for wisdom, virtue, and academic excellence?
Virtues Campus is a growing movement of church-based micro-colleges—offering affordable, faith-rooted, and relational higher education designed to disciple the next generation.
Blindly trying to duplicate past excellence is as useless as the progressive tendency to blindly leap into change for the sake of change. Old bad, new good was the flip side of old good, new bad. That was a bastardized conservatism. The original concept of conserving the best, while always seeking improvement was a wiser approach. Holding onto received truth as though holding a fragile bird, just tightly enough to keep it from escaping without injuring it or even killing it was from ancient Eastern wisdom, and was self evidently the right path. In rejecting ancient wisdom, modernity endangered all wisdom, leading us into hubristic cynicism.
Any reform of education must be centered on such ancient wisdom Much of what was considered The Enlightenment suffered from such hubris. Insights into the adaptability of species very devolved into beliefs of unlikely improbabilities. Egged on by doubt and rejection of seven day creationism to doubt and rejection of God. Where as according to the same Bible that told of God's creation, also told of man's original sin as doubt and rejection of God's word. Thus, doubt of God wasn't an example of advance, but a reoccurrence of an ancient practice.
Instead, we should have re-examined the old account to discover what it was telling us. Telling truth in story form was a reliable method of passing down truth to those who had not the opportunity to see it first-hand. We thus lost an important truth that we aren't as creative as we like to think of ourselves, but inherited our reason from our creator, and should consider new ideas humble and with thanksgiving. It's not too late to reconsider, and to learn from our mistakes.
I would add Patrick Henry College to this list of organizations taking a different approach. Hillsdale fits there as well, along with Taylor University.
Wonderful article! I love the title—it’s compelling and would make an excellent book. I serve as a Strategic Advisor and Marketing Specialist with Virtues Campus, and this resonates deeply with our mission.
Virtues Campus
Empowering Communities to Launch Micro-Colleges
We help local churches and community leaders start fully accredited micro-colleges—right where they are.
What if the Church reclaimed education?
What if every local congregation became a launchpad for wisdom, virtue, and academic excellence?
Virtues Campus is a growing movement of church-based micro-colleges—offering affordable, faith-rooted, and relational higher education designed to disciple the next generation.
We believe the future of education is:
• Local (rooted in church and community)
• Relational (discipled in small cohorts)
• Transformational (grounded in truth and virtue)
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I've lived in Black Mountain for 3 years and never heard of excel college
Yes, those certainly fit.
Blindly trying to duplicate past excellence is as useless as the progressive tendency to blindly leap into change for the sake of change. Old bad, new good was the flip side of old good, new bad. That was a bastardized conservatism. The original concept of conserving the best, while always seeking improvement was a wiser approach. Holding onto received truth as though holding a fragile bird, just tightly enough to keep it from escaping without injuring it or even killing it was from ancient Eastern wisdom, and was self evidently the right path. In rejecting ancient wisdom, modernity endangered all wisdom, leading us into hubristic cynicism.
Any reform of education must be centered on such ancient wisdom Much of what was considered The Enlightenment suffered from such hubris. Insights into the adaptability of species very devolved into beliefs of unlikely improbabilities. Egged on by doubt and rejection of seven day creationism to doubt and rejection of God. Where as according to the same Bible that told of God's creation, also told of man's original sin as doubt and rejection of God's word. Thus, doubt of God wasn't an example of advance, but a reoccurrence of an ancient practice.
Instead, we should have re-examined the old account to discover what it was telling us. Telling truth in story form was a reliable method of passing down truth to those who had not the opportunity to see it first-hand. We thus lost an important truth that we aren't as creative as we like to think of ourselves, but inherited our reason from our creator, and should consider new ideas humble and with thanksgiving. It's not too late to reconsider, and to learn from our mistakes.
I would add Patrick Henry College to this list of organizations taking a different approach. Hillsdale fits there as well, along with Taylor University.